A&D NEWS

August 4, 2005

Carol Jacobsen Named 2005/2006 Human Rights Fellow

Associate Professor Carol Jacobsen has been named the 2005/2006 Human Rights Fellow of the University of Michigan International Institute’s International Perspectives on Human Rights. Jacobsen’s fellowship will help to sponsor a range of visitors to A&D this fall, including New York photographer Paula Allen, whose works focus on human rights and issues of women in “outsider” groups around the globe; and filmmaker Gayle Ferraro, whose films include Anonymously Yours, on sex trafficking in Burma and Sixteen Decisions, on the courageous efforts of Bangladeshi women working together to overcome poverty.

Vistors to Jacobsen’s Fall semester class, “Bodies in the World: Representing Human Rights” will include:

• Tequila Minsky, New York photographer who documents women in Haiti (Tuesday, Nov. 22)
• Glen Ligon, whose art incorporates language to mine the history of African American culture from slave narratives to contemporary Black experience (Tuesday, Nov. 9)
• Susan Fair, prisoner rights activist and founder of the Michigan Battered Women’s Clemency Project (Thursday, Sept 8th)
• Phoebe Gloeckner, graphic novelist and A&D assistant professor who is working on a book on the murders of the women in Juarez, Mexico.

August 4, 2005

Jan-Henrik Andersen Exhibits at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Jan-Henrik Andersen’s exhibition SIZED MATTER: Perception of the Extreme Unseen opens June 6th at the Art Gallery at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia Illinois. Including large scale prints and sculpture, the works in the exhibition are aimed at lifting the veil on the optically impossible task of visually observing subatomic particles by translating their properties and classification, known as the Standard Model of Subatomic Physics, into a coherent visual language.

A reception and colloquium on the project will be held on June 29th at 4:00pm. The exhibition runs through August 26th. More Information...

August 4, 2005

Satoru Takahashi Selected as Faculty Scholar

Assistant Professor Satoru Takahashi has been selected to participate as a Faculty Scholar in 2005-06 Faculty Scholars Program (FSP) in Integrative Healthcare with a diverse group of scholars from the Departments of Biology, Mathematics Psychiatry, Family Medicine, School of Business, School of Public Health, and the School of Social Work. Faculty Scholars attend ten full-day sessions held on the 2nd Friday of each month from September-June.

August 4, 2005

Jim Cogswell Speaks at DIA, Presents at Conference

On June 12 at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Professor Jim Cogswell will lead a tour of select DIA galleries, as part of the Artist’s Choice presentation series. Cogswell will be using pieces in the collection as well as his own work to examine how a work of art can generate meaning. The presentation begins at 2:00pm.

Cogswell will also be making a presentation in June at the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena Conference (INSAP) at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago on the connections to space exploration in Seven Enigmas, his 1997 performance collaboration with Department of Dance Professor Peter Sparling.

August 4, 2005

David Chung Exhibitions in Washington, D.C. and South Africa

From June 9 through July 16, A&D Associate Professor David Chung’s new prints and large-scale drawings will be on view in Ten, a solo exhibition at Flashpoint Gallery in Washington, D.C. The work uses the ten Korean symbols of immortality to satirize the collision of traditional sensibilities and western modernization.

Chung’s work is also included in Take Me To The River, a group exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum in Pretoria, South Africa that opened May 25.

For more details, please visit http://www.flashpointdc.org and http://www.davidchung.com.

August 4, 2005

Ed West Exhibits in Atlanta

Professor Ed West’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Marilyn Kiang gallery in Atlanta from June 15th through July 31st as part of the National Black Arts Festival.

August 4, 2005

Ted Ramsay Exhibits Work in Flint

Response, Visions and Echoes, presenting new work by artists including A&D Professor Ted Ramsay, Michael Sevick, Miriam Marcus, Daniel Heron, and Brian Steel, will run from June 10–July 1 at Buckham Gallery in Flint, Michigan.

August 4, 2005

Bobby Campbell Curates Exhibition

What happens when you bring serious artists together for a show about play? Heigh-Ho, Hi-Lo, on exhibition from June 15–July 17 at Gallery Project, 215 South Fourth Street in Ann Arbor is a combustible blend incorporating traditional media with everything and anything else.

August 4, 2005

Michel Rodemer’s vidGod opens in Germany

vidGod, an opera with libretto and set design by A&D Professor Michael Rodemer and music by School of Music Professor Stephen Rush, will be performed July 18 and 19 in the Landestheater Tübingen, as part of the celebration of 40 years of the Sister City relationship between Ann Arbor and Tübingen, Germany.

For further information, please see: http://www.umich.edu/~rodemer (Performing Arts link).

August 4, 2005

Brad Smith Featured in Building Babies: An Inner Adventure

The Discovery Health Channel program Building Babies: An Inner Adventure features research, animations and an interview by A&D Associate Professor and Associate Dean Brad Smith. The program is scheduled to air periodically on the Discovery Channel both in the U.S. and Europe.